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The seriousness of sin, temptation, guilt, and the need for cleansing
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The Old Way of the Wicked
Job 22:15-17
… That is the way in every transgressor's case, for every sinner is a rebel against God. Though the man, at the time when he commits the sin …
SERMON • SERMON 549A Desperate Case—How to Meet It
Matthew 17:19-21
… There are grades in devilry as there are in human sin. All men are evil, but all men are not alike evil. All devils are full of sin …
SERMON • SERMON 2778Consulting With Jesus
1 Kings 10:1-3
… The great Sin-Bearer has suffered in the sinner's place—the sword of Divine Justice smote Him, for He stood in the sinner's place willingly bearing …
SERMON • SERMON 3506What Self Deserves
Ezekiel 36:31
… Whichever may have been our pathway before conversion, we do now unfeignedly loathe all the sin of it, whether it were the open sin or the sin of …
SERMON • SERMON 744Jesus At Bethesda—or, Waiting Changed for Believing
John 5:1-9
… It will do you good to see the sorrowful sight—to mark what sin has done and to what sorrows our father Adam has made us heirs. Why …
SERMON • SERMON 307Importance of Small Things in Religion
… But you say, “There is a great big sin standing up.” And he says, “Who are you?” You say, “A poor sinner.” “And what is a poor sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 2750A Door of Hope
Hosea 2:15
… I am hardened and careless although I mourn my hardness and carelessness of sin." My Friend, I am glad to see you in trouble on account of sin …
SERMON • SERMON 2968'His Great Love'
Ephesians 2:4
… And yet, notwithstanding their atrocious sins, Free Grace has won the day! There has seemed, in some cases, to be a stern struggle between sin and Grace, as …
SERMON • SERMON 290The Inexhaustible Barrel
1 Kings 17:16
… Ah, what misery does conviction of sin cause in the breast of the sinner. I have known some so wretched, that all the torments of the inquisition could …
SERMON • SERMON 2907The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ
John 16:14
… A Spirit-taught view of the blood of Christ is the most wonderful sight that ever weeping eyes beheld! There is your sin, your wicked, horrible, damnable sin …
SERMON • SERMON 486The Sinner's End
Psalm 73:17
… Let us, however, receive a clear understanding with regard to the death, judgment, and condemnation of the proud sinner, then at once our sorrows and suspicions are removed …
SERMON • SERMON 2081Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Joel 2:25
… And well you may be! You know your sin and that may well make you mourn. But ring the bells of Heaven, the sinner is repenting! And if …
SERMON • SERMON 550The Ship on Fire—A Voice of Warning
Genesis 19:17
… the ungodly. Sinner, your danger is such that you cannot contend with it by any power of your own. There is a fire of sin within you which …
SERMON • SERMON 2807Spared!
Ezekiel 9:8
… Then, if I hate sin, and if I sigh because others love it—if I cry because I, myself, through infirmity fall into it—if the sin of …
SERMON • SERMON 113Confession of Sin—A Sermon With Seven Texts
Exodus 9:27
… crimes than before, and dive into greater depths of sin than heretofore he had discovered. The Hardened Sinner. PHARAOH—“I have sinned.”— Exodus 9:27 . I. The first …
SERMON • SERMON 3029God's Tender Mercy
Luke 1:78
… that the sinner may never have to feel them, but may escape from them. Mercy also adds, "The Grace of God is boundless, so your sin may be …
SERMON • SERMON 69The Allegories of Sarah and Hagar
Galatians 4:24
… But if thou wilt deny that thou hast ever sinner, dost thou know that if in future thou commit but one sin—though thou shouldst live for seventy …
SERMON • SERMON 682Future Punishment A Fearful Thing
Hebrews 10:31
… If we really feel that God is angry with the sinner and loathes and hates his sin and will certainly take fearful vengeance upon him on account of …
SERMON • SERMON 341The High Priest Standing Between the Dead and the Living
Numbers 16:47-48
… Oh sinner, Christ is an all-sufficient Savior, able to save; you cannot save yourself, but he can save you. Oh sinner, all sin and blasphemy shall be …
SERMON • SERMON 2676Comfort From the Future
Job 11:16
… Solomon says, "The blueness of a wound cleanses away evil," and the chastisement which follows sin is often for the healing of the sinner. IV. I will bring …
SERMON • SERMON 2162And Why Not Me?
Matthew 8:2
… His longsuffering in sparing your life means your salvation— "While the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return." Come, then, with all your sin about …
SERMON • SERMON 3503Joy in Salvation
Psalm 9:4
… There is always punishment for sin in every case. Jesus Christ, the Substitute, comes in and satisfies Justice before the word is spoken to the sinner, "Thy transgression …
SERMON • SERMON 599The Certainty And Freeness Of Divine Grace
John 6:37
… Do you see, Sinner, He does not take men in the lump, but He picks you out as if you were the only sinner in the world! He …
SERMON • SERMON 2274God's People Melted and Tried
Jeremiah 9:7
… Sin—sin it is that does the mischief! There are some who cavil at the punishment that God puts upon sin—they would do better if they found …
SERMON • SERMON 289The Minister's Farewell
Acts 20:26-27
… Oh, may God teach thee that the mischief lies in thy sin. Thou hast unforgiven sin about thee. As long as thy sin is unforgiven, thou canst neither …
SERMON • SERMON 3154Concerning The Forbearance Of God
Romans 2:4
… O Sinner, you cannot promise that you will not sin in the future! You may foolishly say, "I will not," but the Ethiopian might sooner change his skin …
SERMON • SERMON 513The Young Man'S Prayer
Psalm 90:14
… a sinner." A little child, but seven years of age, cried when under conviction of sin—"Can the Lord have mercy upon such a great sinner as I …
SERMON • SERMON 770The Water of Life
John 4:15
… Oh, mighty Grace of God that can put out the flames of sin! O Sinner, the very flames of Hell are put out by this Grace of God …
SERMON • SERMON 2685The Oft-Repeated Invitation
Revelation 22:17
… He begins by exhibiting the sinner's sin to him before He proclaims mercy to him—and if we want to be the means of doing good to …
SERMON • SERMON 3525God's Overtaking Mercy
Genesis 16:8
… And when the Gospel fully preached describes the sinner, paints him, photographs him, holds it before him and makes him say, "Why, that is me—he speaks of …
SERMON • SERMON 400Our Miseries, Messengers of Mercy
Hosea 6:1-2
… All sorrow is the result of sin, but still it does not come to any particular man, except in some remarkable instances, because of any special sin in …
SERMON • SERMON 519Believing With The Heart
Romans 10:10
… Yet the preacher must dwell most upon that doctrine which is the most required and is most likely to heal the sin-sick soul. We believe that for …
SERMON • SERMON 613The Strong One Driven Out By A Stronger One
Luke 11:21-26
… He will tell the sinner sometimes that he is too young to think of death and of eternal things. And when this weapon fails he will assure him …
SERMON • SERMON 3221'Yet There Is Room'
Luke 14:22
… Yet Sinner, though all this is so terribly true of you, though you have gone as far as you can go in sin, "yet there is room" even …
SERMON • SERMON 1410Believers Free from the Dominion of Sin
Romans 6:14
… You cannot sin, for you love God! The sinner may drink sin down as the ox drinks down water, but to you it shall be as the brine …
SERMON • SERMON 2668Communion With Christ—a Baptizing Sermon
Amos 3:3
… But if we are livingin sin. If we are, in anyway whatever, breaking the commands of God—to the extent of our sin there will be just that …
SERMON • SERMON 754The Saint and the Spirit
John 14:17
… grievous error by disparaging repentance of sin, and setting at nothing all idea of a sinner's coming to Jesus because sin has become loathsome and unbearable. Beloved …
SERMON • SERMON 2611A Lost Christ Found
Luke 2:44-46
… One day amidst the place Where my dear God has been, Is sweeter than ten thousand days Of pleasurable sin." Sinner, if you seek Christ, seek Him where …
SERMON • SERMON 775The Great Attraction
John 12:32
… O my Hearers, this is a blessed attraction, indeed! I would to God that it would attract some of you! O that the thought that your sin can …
SERMON • SERMON 1042A Persuasive to Steadfastness
Hebrews 3:14
… Oh, how blessed to be a partaker of Christ, the sin-atoning sacrifice'to stand before God as a sinner that deserves nothing but damnation in himself, and …